The former president of the United States climbed into the passenger seat of a white garbage truck that also carried his name in an effort to troll President Joe Biden’s statement that claimed his supporters (Republicans) are garbage.
Trump has used the remark as a cudgel against his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris.
“How do you like my garbage truck?” Trump said, wearing an orange and yellow safety vest over his white dress shirt and red tie. “This is in honor of Kamala and Joe Biden.”
Trump and other Republicans were facing pushback of their own for comments by a comedian at a weekend Trump rally who disparaged Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.” Trump then seized on a comment Biden made on a late Wednesday call that “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters.”
Though the Whitehouse made effort to clarify the comment after backlashes from Americans, saying he had intended to say Trump’s demonization of Latinos was unconscionable, however, it was too late.